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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465631803321

Autore

Flury Roger <1948->

Titolo

Giacomo Puccini [[electronic resource] ] : a discography / / Roger Flury

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Md., : Scarecrow Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8108-8329-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (936 p.)

Disciplina

016.7821092

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

GIACOMO PUCCINI; CONTENTS; Abbreviations; Foreword; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Guide to the Discography; 1 Le Villi; 2 Edgar; 3 Manon Lescaut; 4 La Bohème; 5 Tosca; 6 Madama Butterfly; 7 La Fanciulla del West; 8 La Rondine; 9 Il Trittico: Il Tabarro; 10 Il Trittico: Suor Angelica; 11 Il Trittico: Gianni Schicchi; 12 Turandot; 13 Solo Vocal and Choral Music; 14 Orchestral Music; 15 Chamber Music; 16 Instrumental Music; 17 Miscellaneous Pucciniana; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

In Giacomo Puccini: A Discography, librarian and music historian Roger Flury brings together information on nearly 10,000 recordings of Giacomo Puccini's music. Flury looks at each of Puccini's operas chronologically from Le Villi to Turandot, followed by sections on Puccini's instrumental, chamber, orchestral, and solo vocal works. Details of each complete opera are listed by recording date, followed by excerpts



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452647703321

Autore

Morenz Siegfried.

Titolo

Egyptian religion / / Siegfried Morenz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxon [England] : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-136-54256-6

1-138-87871-5

1-315-01772-5

1-136-54249-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (396 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography. Social and cultural anthropology ; ; XII

Disciplina

396

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Egypt Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1973.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; Sources; Meaning of religion in Egyptian; 1. THE RELIGIOUS ORIGIN OF THE EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION; Art; Literature and drama; Science; Philology and philosophy; Historiography; Government; Justice; Religion as matrix of culture; 2. THE GODS; Power; Conception of the gods; Form of the gods: personification; Names of the gods; Creation of the gods; Negative relationship between gods and man; Local deities; Cosmic deities; Revelation

Sacrosanct monarchyKing's two bodies; The king as intermediary with the gods; 3. THE WORSHIPPERS; The Egyptocentric outlook: the country; The Egyptocentric outlook: the inhabitants; Extent of Egyptian gods' influence; Extent of Egyptian gods' influence within the country; 4. DIVINE COMMANDMENTS, GUIDANCE AND INSPIRATION: THE FUNCTIONS OF THE GODS; The problem of free will; Theodicy; Divine commandments; Divine guidance; Divine inspiration; Fate; Foreknowledge;  prophecy; Terminology for 'fate'; God as lord of fate; Egyptian view of time; 5. CULT AND PIETY: THE CONDUCT OF MEN

Relationship between cult and mythCult in dynastic times; The Egyptian



temple; Daily service for the image; Festivals; Professions of belief;  hymns; Divine service as expression of a juridical relationship between God and man; Sanctity; Priesthood; Personal piety;  oracles; Amon's role in personal piety; Images; Coexistence of official cult and personal piety; 6. ETHICS AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO RELIGION; Religious foundations of conduct; Sources; What is maat ?; Relative explicitness of maat; Means of becoming cognizant of maat; Cognizance of maat based on insight and experience

Maat as measure of judgement upon menThe judgement of the dead; Consciousness of sin; Substance of Egyptian ethics; Ethics and religion; 7. EGYPTIAN THEOLOGY; Nature of Egyptian theology; Local deities;  'syncretism'; Unity in plurality;  Egyptian trinities; Doctrine of Amenophis IV; Origins of monotheism; Relationship between deity and image; Initial assumption of identity between image and object; Ritual performed to vitalize the image; Concept of ba; 8. EGYPTIAN COSMOGONIES AND DOCTRINES OF EVOLUTION; Creation; The creator-god as craftsman; God as procreator; Creation through God's word

Time of the creation 'the first time'; Material of creation; Mythology of creation and scientific thought; Origin of life from an egg; Origin of life from a lotus; Relationship between doctrines of creation and evolution; 9. DEATH AND THE DEAD; Creation of man; God as lord of death; Death part of cosmic order; Egyptian attitude to death; The act of dying; Egyptians' lifelong consciousness of death; Creative consequences: the pyramids and Egyptian art; Burial customs;  mummification; Funerary gifts and supply of provisions; Concept of heaven; Realm of the dead; Historical development

Significance: overcoming death

Sommario/riassunto

Introducing the reader to the gods and their worshippers and to the ways in which they were related, this book focuses on the ever-present link between the human and the divine in Ancient Egypt. The book also examines the impact of Egyptian religion